While the top two did not change compared to the first half of the year, with the BMW 3/4 series still selling 50% more units than the Mercedes-Benz C-class/CLK, there is a new car in third spot – the Lexus IS/RC. Clearly the latest, third generation of the Lexus is connecting better with buyers than the equivalent, third-generation Infiniti G50. Part of the reason may be Lexus’s RC model, which clearly captures sales that Infiniti’s last-generation Q60 is unable to bring in, although by Lexus’s own admission the RC is not exactly a big volume-generator, selling only 1 unit for 4 units of the IS the brand sells.

Otherwise, the big news in the segment is the Acura TLX, which keeps selling like hotcakes – it already passed the Audi A4/A5 to nab 5th place by the mid-year mark, and actually came to within 300 units of Infiniti’s Q40/Q50/Q60 cars. It is quite likely it sneaks past its Japanese rival in 2016, although Infiniti will also have its new Q60 on sale by then, while Acura does not plan to offer a coupe version of the TLX anytime soon.

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About Krzysztof Wozniak

Kriss grew up in Poland reading German car magazines, before moving to England and graduating to the British magazines, which he still considers the best in the world and continues reading them after he'd moved to the US. In college he promised himself he's buy himself a used Porsche before he turned 30 (not to be accused of having a mid-life crisis), but instead family needs dictated a Subaru Outback. Still waiting for that perfect moment to buy a used 2008-ish Cayman...
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